Linguistics Careercast

“Including personal information on your resume is recommended – it shows recruiters that you’re a well-rounded person”

Marina Zhukova is finishing a PhD in linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. During her time in school, both in the US and Russia, where she was born, she has held a number of internships related to linguistics, most recently at Amazon, working on Alexa. Marina is skilled in Conversational AI, Customer Research, and Product Management; she was selected as one of the 60 students out of 1,500+ applicants to attend Google’s Product Inclusion and Equity Summit.

Marina Zhukova on LinkedIn

Marina Zhukova on github

LSA 2024 Panel: Securing an internship, contract work and part-time jobs during your degree program: A practical guide for linguistics students & faculty advisors

Imagine PhD

The Graduate Program in Management Practice (GPMP)

Beyond Academia at UCSB

Topics include

– internships

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“I’m a jack of all trades – all linguists are”

Falene McKenna is a linguist, tech enthusiast, conversation wizard, and a “true robot whisperer”. She studied Computational Linguistics at the University of Alberta. Since then, she’s led QA crusades, expanded beta programs across North American homes, and built customer support systems from the ground up. Falene has presented at various events, including the Conversation Design Festival 2022, emphasizing the importance of bot building standards, language expertise in AI experiences, and persona building. She is also an active member of Women in Voice, promoting gender diversity in the voice technology industry.

Falene McKenna on LinkedIn

Falene McKenna’s speaking profile on Sessionize

Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALT Lab)

Conversation Design Institute

Danielle Boyer’s Skobots

Topics include

– language revitalization

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“Don’t let one bridge troll stop you – find another bridge!'”

Anna Marie Trester is a linguist and story practitioner, one of the founders of the Special Interest Group Linguistics Outside Academia. As the author of Bringing Linguistics to Work and Employing Linguistics (Bloomsbury Press), she speaks and gives workshops as the Career Linguist, and with organizational partners PIER Consulting Group, The FrameWorks Institute, and Anecdote International. She runs the Career Linguist Career Camp.

Michal Temkin Martinez studied linguistics at California State University, Northridge and the University of Southern California. Her training is in experimental phonology, and she has worked in language documentation, working with community members who arrived in the United States as resettled refugees. Her current research and administrative work focuses on capacity building for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the field of linguistics. She is the Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Boise State University.

Anna Marie Trester on LinkedIn

Buy Anna Marie’s books, Employing Linguistics and Bringing Linguistics to Work

Career Linguist network

Michal Temkin Martinez on LinkedIn and on Wikipedia

Michal Temkin Martinez’ website

Boise State University Linguistics Dept.

“Employing Linguistics” class at Boise State

Topics include

– informational interviews

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“Just because you have a PhD doesn’t mean you’ll get hired at an advanced position in a company.”

Kaitlyn Tagarelli earned her PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University and eventually made the move to the language-learning industry, making it more fun, accessible, and effective through evidence-based solutions. She is currently Head of Research for Mango Languages. She draws on her interdisciplinary background in linguistics, language learning, pedagogy, educational technology, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to drive research initiatives and collaborations.

Kaitlyn Tagarelli on LinkedIn

Kaitlyn’s blog posts, Adventures in Language, at Mango Languages

Kaitlyn’s YouTube series:

The Linguist List

Topics include

– neurolinguistics

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This episode is an audio version of a virtual career panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021. The title of the panel is Educational Technology. Our three panelists followed different routes from linguistics into Education Technology. They’ll share their decisions about taking these routes, and what’s involved in this profession.

The moderator in Kaitlyn Tagarelli.

Panelists:

Anna Marie Trester’s Career Camp

Topics discussed include

– educational technology

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“I had a foot out the door for years – and it was still a total re-evaluation of my life'”

After getting her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Berkeley, Suzanne Wertheim held faculty positions at Northwestern, University of Maryland, and UCLA. In 2011, she left the university system in order to apply her expertise to real-world problems. Suzanne has done fieldwork with speakers as diverse as Tatar nationalists in the former Soviet Union, Native Americans in central California, comedians in Los Angeles, and female engineers of San Francisco and Silicon Valley. She now runs Worthwhile Research & Consulting, which specializes in analyzing and addressing bias at work. Her book, The Field Guide to Inclusive Language, is an essential resource for anyone interested in inclusive language. It’s out now!

Suzanne Wertheim’s website

Suzanne Wertheim on LinkedIn

Worthwhile Consulting

Buy The Field Guide to Inclusive Language

Topics include

– DEI

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“You’ve got to figure out how to talk about your own expertise'”

Bozena Pajak is is the Vice President of Learning and Curriculum at Duolingo, where she works at the intersection of learning science and product development. She got her PhD at UC San Diego, training in linguistics and cognitive psychology. She now focuses on developing digital educational products that are both effective and motivating for learners.

Bozena Pajak’s website

Bozena Pajak on LinkedIn

Topics include

– language learning

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“Don’t underestimate the power of the skills you have.”

This episode is an audio version of a virtual career panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021. Our three panelists followed different routes from linguistics into work in non-profit organizations. They share their decisions about taking these routes, and what’s involved in working in this sector.

The moderator is Alex Johnston.

Panelists:

Topics include

– non-profits

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“You have to ask yourself, ‘What am I meant to be doing when I’m done with graduate school?'”

Kate Mesh is a linguist who is working as a disability-inclusive researcher in London, England. She helps major brands to improve their designs by observing the friction points, and innovated solutions, of their customers with a range of specific access needs. She leads accessibility-oriented projects that shape strategy and design choices for businesses ranging from retail corporations to government innovation agencies. Her fieldwork in grad school was focused on studying how hearing people gesture while they speak, and how deaf people adapt many of these gestures to use in young sign languages that are just now being created.

Kate Mesh on LinkedIn

Kate Mesh on Github

International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP)

CPACC Certification

Nancy Frishberg

Topics include

– ASL

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“In industry, personal qualities are just as important as qualifications – who you are, what you’re interested in.”

This episode is an audio version of a virtual career panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021. It’s true: Developing brand names is a real job, and one for which linguists are particularly well-suited. In this Career Linguist panel, three professional namers will share their career journeys, how they use their linguistic training at work, and discuss the opportunities available in naming and branding for interested linguists.

Panelists:

LCL panel on translation/localization (YouTube video)

Topics include:

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